Brilliant! That's perfect.
I'd tried writing a note with the rest glyph as notehead, but then the
stem was too long - your solution is both easier and more controllable.
Thanks,
Paul
On 22/08/2021 11:33:47, "Thomas Morley" <thomasmorle...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>Am So., 22. Aug. 2021 um 11:41 Uhr schrieb Paul Hodges <p...@cassland.org>:
>>
>> I have been asked to set a modern piece for Flute, and it has some
>> elements which are new to me, and which I have been unable to find a way
>> to present. The first of these is that the composer regularly writes
>> rests within (or at the ends of) groups of quavers beamed together.
>> Using manual beaming it is easy to get the beams to extend over the
>> rests as required; however, in the manuscript (and in a printed copy of
>> some other music of his) there is a stub stem from the beam towards the
>> rest.
>>
>> I suppose I can draw this as an individual markup on each occasion, but
>> doing this for dozens of cases is daunting, and I wonder if anyone can
>> suggest a more practical approach?
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas!
>> Paul
>>
>
>How about:
>
>\relative {
> r8[ b b r] b[ r r b]
> \override Stem.stemlet-length = #1.0
> r8[ b b r] b[ r r b]
>}
>
>Cheers,
> Harm
>
